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in which buzz and I discuss homeschooling
April 16th, 2006
Today I finished reading Sandra Dodd’s “Moving a Puddle, and other essays”. There were quite a lot of inspiring messages, and I felt really excited about all the possibilities ahead of us.
On our way to our friend’s house for dinner, we passed the library where our homeschool group has their monthly support group mtg. I told Buzz that in June the meeting was specifically for spouses of the primary unschooling parent.
His first response was “Pass”. But I know that his first reaction to anything is NO. He then actually said “you never know. stranger things have happened” So, I feel slightly encouraged that he might go. It is only April, but the sooner I prepare him, the more time he has to get used to the idea.
Actually, that is what I said to him two years ago when I was pregnant with our baby. I said that I was going to homeschool. He said “no chance, no way, never ever.”
I said, “honey, I am telling you now, so five years from now, you will be used to the idea”. He agreed that was my best approach. lol.
Tonight I asked him where he was with the whole unschooling idea. He told me he thinks its crazy hippy stuff. But when I hear him talk to other people about it, or he tells me stories of him telling his friends, he always states it as fact: “Nancy is homeschooling” (and she is a crazy hippy) . I find this encouraging. Mostly.
Of course, our child is two. So there is plenty of time for him to see how learning happens, and plenty of time for me and him to talk about everything. And to figure out how to strew stuff for *him*. Could ESPN the Magazine publish some stuff about unschooling so I could be sure he would read it?
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Maybe he’ll come around. Especially if he goes to a parent meeting and hears every other husband’s tale of crazy hippy wives to whom they’ve succumb. I’ll try to talk Ken in to it. He’s very suuportive of homeschooling, he just doesn’t like to hang out in groups where there are no computers.
I always thought unschooling was a crazy hippy kind of homeschooling, but I’m learning from Ron and Andrea, among others, that there’s really a spectrum of people doing the unschooling thing. I’m about the farthest from hippy you can get!